Thermal regimes of HTS cylinders operating in devices for fault current limitation
arXiv:cond-mat/0702105 · doi:10.1088/0953-2048/20/5/009
Abstract
We reveal obstacles related to the application of HTS cylinders in current limiting devices based on the superconducting - normal state transition. It is shown that, at the critical current density achieved presently in bulk materials, and especially in BSCCO-2212, the required thickness of the cylinder wall in a full-scale inductive device achieves several centimeters. A simple mathematical model of the operation of an inductive fault current limiter (FCL) is used to show that such cylinders cannot be cooled in admissible time after a fault clearing and, hence, the inductive FCLs and current-limiting transformers employing BSCCO cylinders do not return to the normal operation in the time required. For the recovery even with a non-current pause in the circuit, the cylinders are needed with the critical current density by an order higher than the existed ones.
15 pages, 5 figures